Modern Culture and Media Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations for the Modern Culture and Media department.

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Description:: Secrets, secrets, are no fun…. While one may avoid having secrets out of fear that they will fragment relationships, sometimes this damage is desired. This …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Merritte, Kayci (creator); Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor); Rooney, Ellen (Reader); Perry, Keisha-Khan (Reader); Guterl, Matthew (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
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Subject:: Violence; food studies; Secrecy; Black Studies; Household employees; African American women; White House
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Description:: This dissertation argues for the political and aesthetic significance of a group of contemporary realist films that employ a non-presentational, lacunary aesthetic. Through close analyses …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Theus, Tyler A (creator); Copjec, Joan (Advisor); Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor); Rosen, Philip (Advisor); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Film theory; Realist Film theory; Global Art Cinema; Bazin, André, 1918-1958; Jean-Louis Comolli; Slow cinema; Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981; offscreen space; Psychoanalytic Film Theory; Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947-; Oliveira, Manoel de, 1908-2015; Tarr, Béla, 1955-; Herzog, Werner; Jia, Zhangke, 1970-
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Description:: Feminist and anti-colonial movements of the post-war era reconfigured and politicized the concept of reproductive labor. Simultaneously, an industry of broadcast television and advertising arose …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Austin, Arlen William (creator); Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor); Stewart-Steinberg, Suzanne (Reader); Schneider, Rebecca (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Television; Digital media; Feminist theory; Media studies; Italian feminism; Marxism and culture; Labor theory of value
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Description:: This dissertation examines a variety of media objects, from the 1950s exercise television program of Jack LaLanne to the 1980s VHS tapes of Jane Fonda, …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Contess, Katherine (creator); Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor); Rieppel, Lukas (Reader); Koch, Gertrud (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Exercise; Television; Digital media; body; Physical fitness; Wearable technology
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Description:: This dissertation contends that American society is currently witnessing the rise of what I have termed the jurified spectator: the individual media user who perceives …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Lawrence, Heather Thompson (creator); Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor); Koch, Gertrud (Reader); Guterl, Matthew (Reader); Mills, Mara (Reader); Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
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Subject:: media theory; Digital media; Feminist theory; Racial justice; Popular culture; visual culture; American culture; True crime; trial narratives; conspiracy theory
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